stigma. you're a strong body and mind. it's great you shared that. >> listen, anything i can do to help. starting with myself. good doctor. always a pleasure. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts now. [ applause ] >> golf clap. >> i'm glad you shared that. i have shared my story a bit before. i'll share more. this is about you. i commend you for that. >> it's about all of us. >> i was dealing with racial profiling event in 2000. in the state of depression. went to a therapist, she prescribed zo loft. and i started feeling better. why didn't i do this before. there was another incident. after my sister died i need to go more. after you deal with death. but, you know, you don't want to

do it you think that in some way people will think you're weak. le lesser of you. that is the wrong attitude to have. after new town i couldn't, i ran to the therapist office. it was all i could do to get that i couldn't get fast enough. >> what clicked for me. a friend said if you have a problem you go to a specialist. you have been asking yourself why you have dreams that end in abject disaster nightly. and you're not talking about it somebody? i thought about it. yeah, i'm ashamed. the truth is we were talking about this, you should think people will think less of you. they will. that's part of the problem. it is real. i can't wait to see what fun some fool has with the fact i told them guy to therapy. i say have at it. enjoy yourself. i think the important thing for

society is respecting that vulnerability is strength not weakness. men struggle with this. >> i didn't see all your show. i saw a portion. >> san jay made a difference. >> he's the best. >> doctor gupta. i call him. >> i don't know if you talked about it. there's a cultural issue with it. there's a generational issue. i know within my community, when i told people i was dealing with things, don't talk to anybody. talk to your pastor. don't share your family business. don't tell your business. keep it in the family. get on your knees and pray. that helps. but that's just one part of the solution. actually going to talk to someone -- a doctor. >> when you hurt your back. would you just talk to family and a pastor and pray.

that's the analogy. >> part of it. >> you're going to the chiropractor. >> if you can get your butt out of bed. >> same thing. >> you have to treat it the same way. i'm happy we took the hour tonight to do it. >> i congratulate you for doing it. doctor gupta is the best. nice job. you did a public service. everyone who is involved in the show. lt entire team. i'll see you a little bit later this evening. we have a long night. >> yes, sir. >> i'll get this show under way. this is "cnn tonight." you know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. it's true. seeing something with your own eyes makes it real and in a way that reading about it and imagining it just doesn't. right now, we're seeing the unmatched power of a picture to show americans what the immigration debate really looks like. the real -- oh my gosh. there's the photograph.

undenialable human cost. death of a father. and not quite two year-old daughter. 23 months old. oscar martinez and his daughter. who left el salvador, traveled to mexico. where they tried to cross. they drowned on sunday. as his wife and mother watched helplessly. her mother. this is a picture so heartbreaking, it's affected all of us. i couldn't stop thinking about it. everywhere i went between last night and today. everyone talked about it. said they can't unsee this picture. it is clear. it made an impression on the president too. in the face of the tragedy, and others like it, he blames democrats. again and again.

>> democrats are solely responsible for the humanitarian crisis. they refuse every effort to shut off the magnets of child smuggling. hard to believe. >> the asylum policy of the democrats is responsible. because they will not change the asylum policy. if we had the right laws that the democrats are not letting us have. those people they wouldn't be coming up. they wouldn't be trying. >> the fact is, this is a crisis of the president's own making. no matter how many times he dodges responsibility for the result. of his own policy. >> a lot of people are starting to realize i was right when i said we have a crisis at the border. everyone saying we have a crisis at the border it wasn't manufactured. which they were saying. it wasn't manufactured at all. >> so here's the thing that i

think for political the president and his apoll gists say. now all of a sudden there's a crisis. people were saying there wasn't at border, they were saying in the context of him declaring a national emergency to move funds there. no one ever said it wasn't humanitarian crisis. that's a talking point. for the administration. and they know the difference. and for conservative media. they note the difference. they refuse to admit it because it's convenient. there's always a humanitarian crisis. it's been a crisis of his own making. policies of this administration own making now. there's a distinction there. the way people talk about it now, and then when he wanted to declare a national emergency. nuance. revolutionary. nuance. we have seen the trajic results of policy.

with our own eyes, and so has he. like i said a picture is worth a thousand words. there's another picture that is sure to get the attention of the president. along with millions of americas. a picture of robert mueller sitting in congress testifying publicly that's going to happen july 17. a picture this president really doesn't want to see. he won't be able to look away. >> mueller thing never stops. there was no collusion. no obstruction, no nothing. how many times do we have to hear it? this is a disgraceful thing. we keep i heard about it last night. i just said does it ever end? what point does it end. >> the only time we have heard from mueller only a month ago. he spoke for just under ten minutes. hearing him and seeing him captured our attention in a way the roughly 200,000 words in the report couldn't.

>> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. >> americans will be on the edge of their seats. when the former special counsel testifies. make no mistake about it. even if all he does is reads his report. reads from the report. it's must see tv. even in the white house. after all, as far as the president is concerned, if it's not on tv, or twitter. of course it didn't happen. that's the way to get his attention. he has staffed his administration with people he sees on fox news. and cable. people he sees on cnn. they work for him. he tweets quotes of what he just saw on tv all the time. he'll tweet about it. this is a president who is all about television. after all he was a reality star

before he decided to run for president. he choreographed his campaign with made for tv moments like the trump tower escalator ride. it probably shouldn't be a surprise he's really really impressed by tivo. which i should point out went on the market 1999. but the president is pretty excited about it. >> i said you have to see this. it's great invention. t vo. it's better than television. you play it back. i played it back. >> okay, sorry. this is serious. i'm going to give him the ben if the of the doubt. maybe he's talking about copying. they say xerox. maybe it's the way people say

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mexican journalist took this photograph. tucked inside her daddy's black t-shirt. clinging to him. in their final moments. their bodies found monday morning. martinez's wife, in agony. walking behind the stretcher carrying the bodies of her loved ones. the mexican newspaper says on sunday he told officials her husband and daughter disappeared in the river. after the three of them went to the american migration office to discover it was closed for the weekend. and that he decided to closs the river. he took their little girl over first. leaving her on the american side. when he went back to get, the daughter jumped in after him. martinez tried to save her. all the while watching helplessly from the mexican side of the river. >> she saw he and the little

girl were being dragged. she waved at her. >> sadly they were swept away. the photographer who took the photograph says she has seen many drownings. it was unlike any other. >> this should be an invitation to debate and consider changes on the policies. and for the two governments to ask themselves, what are we doing for the immigrants? or why in the middle of the depair a father and the head of the family doesn't care on risking his life and his daughter's life just to try to make it to the other side thinking that he will find better future but only to find death? >> martinez's mother says she warned him not to make the dangerous journey north. but her son wanted the american dream. for his family. >> they lived here with me. in the same house. they wanted to have their own house. and that was what motivated them. >> in the last hour, a local

lady put that rose on the river bank. said a prayer. for the two lives taken on the river here. oscar he was an economic migrant. so many people though are fleeing countries for their very lives. that is why they're willing to take risks like this. and put their families lives at risk as well. >> thank you so much. joining me now. juliette and max boot. michael is here as well. the author of the truth about trump. hello to all of you. michael, start with you. in the studio. thank you for the note about this. when i woke up this morning and saw the front of the "new york times." i thought about it last night and woke up and there it was. >> heartbreaking. >> for the world. this is circulating the world. this is america's image to the world. this is the country that used to welcome your huddled masses

yearning to be free. now this is what we are. >> this is what the president said when asked what the photograph of the father and young daughter made him feel. >> i hate it. i know it could stop immediately if the democrats change the law. they have to change the law. and that father who probably was a wonderful guy. with his daughter. things like that wouldn't happen. >> he says probably was a wonderful guy. that's a big difference. of how he talked about immigrants in the past. >> they're bringing drugs, crime, they're rapists. >> we're bringing in bad, bad people. >> these aren't people. these are animals. >> in the caravans you have stone cold killers. >> these people were vicious. >> some of the asylum people, they are gang members. >> is the difference that

there's a picture? is that -- what turns a migrant from a threat to the country to probably a wonderful guy? >> i don't think there's enough of a difference being expressed by the president. this is a social pathic policy. carried out by a soesh owe pathic leader. the tragic results we have seen. this a crisis he created. during his presidency we hit a 30 year low for crossings in 2017. now we're it's escalating again because he's instituted all the policies that are scaring people. they're desperate. i'm going to go now before it gets worse. and you know who was an economic migrant. donald trumps grandfather. his father who he forgot was born in the bronx. he said he was born in germany. was the son of an economic migrant. his mother was an economic migrant. this is the height of cynicism and cruelty. >> i want to bring in max.

images affect trump in the past. when he saw the images of the children suffering from a chemical attack in syria. and took action there. do you think this image will have a similar impact on the president? and in the context. he keeps blaming it on democrats. >> well, clearly, the shocking and horrifying image is galvanizing congress into action. you have had the house and senate that passed similar appropriations bills and the question is ironing out differences and getting the money to the border. is this going to cause donald trump to fundamentally reorient his approach? no way. this is the basis of the entire presidency. really his entire identity. is based on vilifying and smearing immigrants and calling them horrible names. he's also dehumanized them. calling them animals who breed

and infest. this is the direction the border patrol and other agents receive from the top. this is just a few days ago you had an administration lawyer arguing with strag face in court -- straight face in court that the children shouldn't be given a bed so sleep on on tooth paste or soap. this cruelty is really core to the trump policy. and so you may see things get a tiny bit better with the passage of the bills. i don't see any fundamental reorientation of donald trump's horrifying antiimmigrant stance which trance lates into the terrible policies of the border locking children up and conditions. >> we're learning federal asylum officers just asked the federal court to end trumps policy of returning asylum seekers to kmoex mexico. while awaiting hearings. they are saying it puts lives at

risk. contrary to the moral fabric of the nation and domestic obligation. is this significant? if so, how? >> it is. only because it is at least the trump has has been losing these cases in court. there will be another argument about whether the returning of asylum seelkers who remember are doing so lawfully. isn't more dangerous than keeping them here. letting them stay with family. and some sort of family processing policy. that would allow them to come in. and they go forward through a court and proceeding to determine whether they should be asylum seekers. i should say, i'm on the show sort of one of the tough people and talk about national security. i want to say how disturbing this picture is. the and the policies in the last week. i have not been able to keep it together. on this.

i think because it is someone who comes from crisis management. our obligation in government is sort of singular. family unification. it's because in any crisis or disaster. across the world. a tsunami and earthquake. the primary sentiment of anyone is how is my child? it animates anyone. i have three kids. if you lose one in the shopping mall. where is my kid? what is so disturbing about this policy. it's so inconsistent with how one ought to deal with the crisis. you unify people. you do not separate them. we can deal with the laws whether they are right or wrong. or the funding. in number or that number later. at the moment of the crisis the only thing that should animate us is bring families together. it's our policy for the exact opposite. to sort -- it's beyond enraging. it's like you can't even get your head around this is the united states fwovt government.

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mueller set to testify publicly about his findings before congress on july 17. since the news broke, president trump has been on the attack on twitter and tv. listen to this. >> robert mueller they went to him and the two lovers were together and they had text back and forth. >> how come we haven't seen it? >> you know why? mueller terminated them. illegally. he terminated the the e-mails. all of the stuff between strzok and page. robert mueller terminated their text messages. together. he tmpl nated them. they're gone. and that's illegal. >> so joining me now to discuss. former fbi general counsel.

and former federal prosecutor. the author of the new book how to read the constitution and why. welcome to both of you. first i have to do fact checking. the facts first. the fbi initially couldn't gain access to texts between page and strzok. or technical reasons. but the doj inspector general g recover them. did recover them. they informed lawmakers and published the texts. members of congress read them out loud at the hearing. so the president is accusing the special counsel of a fairly serious crime. with no evidence. is that correct? >> he's pointing at a different set of texts. texts that were between the two of them during the time period when he they were working for the special counsel. i think that's what he's trying to say. there was some kind of technical mistake, problem. when they transitioned out of

their positions. my understanding is that the devices were rebooted. basically. they were wiped and prepared for the use of someone else. that is a technical thing that happens. >> they didn't get all the texts? meaning -- >> i think there's a body of texts that we didn't get. yes, the department of justice disclosed to congress in an unusual way a number of those texts. i don't think that was the ones that potentially existed. >> we'll check on that. >> the point is, there's no evidence whatsoever that anybody committed a crime. with respect to the deletion of the texts. it was a technical thing that happened. it was routine procedure. and for the president to accuse director mueller of himself somehow being involved in a crime is outrageous. we shouldn't stop being out raged by the statements from the chief executive. >> i want to bring you in, kim. the president is claiming he's

being harassed. this is a senior advisish. jared kushner his son-in-law. >> at this point this is a waste of time. >> they did interfere with the u.s. election. the mueller report concluded the russians did interfere. it wasn't a complete waste of time. >> i don't think that's why they're calling him. it's neither here nor there. >> so which is it? are they worried or not worried about mueller testifying? >> i think they probably are worried. because unlike the text situation we actually have multiple hundreds of pages. summarizing actual evidence. meaning testimony of witnesses and documents. and mr. mueller laid it out. in plain english. not many people have read it. it's overwhelming. having someone of his tsa chur and independence. that's why he was appointed. he's independent. sit and even walk through for the american public these are

the facts. and this is the law. because the law is distorted not just by the president. but the attorney general. on obstruction of justice and conspiracy/collusion. it can be helpful. >> this is my perceptionment democrats have a lot of they're weighing a lot on this. putting stock in this. could is backfire? >> the book talks about this separation of power. i liken to a three legged stool. one branch of government that is not functioning the stool falls. that's democracy. democrats are the only part of congress that is set up or situated or interested -- >> i mean mueller testifying. >> that would be the kick off potentially to impeachment. >> it couldn't backfire on democrats? >> his base won't budge. for the rest of us we'll learn something. that's not a bad thing. >> all right.

so jay sekulow. the president's attorney. neither is planning to block mueller's testimony. could they do that? >> they can try. it's a good thing he said that. i hope they stick to it. we'll see. they can try. director mueller will go there and answer questions. if somebody from the administration wants to try to become part of the hearing they are the ones that have so assert privileges. to stop him. i just really think if director mueller sticks to the report, which he said he wants to do, when he had a press conference. that's all he'll talk about. i don't know on what basis they would claim executive privilege or anything else. that's in the public record. that's probably all the democrats will get from him anyway. he won't i would expect, i would be surprised if he strays beyond the report. we'll see. >> this goes with what we were saying before.

the white house keeps complaining about congress overreaching. presidential harassment or whatever. he said this mueller thing. it never stops. wasn't the mueller report a road map to congress to start investigation? you touched on it a bit before. >> it had to be. according to the department of justice policy not a law, cannot indict a president. if a president commits murder, or federal treasury and puts in a bank account. presumably there has to be accountability. if it can't happen through the judicial process. it has to be through congress. that's the only option. or we're creating a presidency that's a monarch. not just a president. >> you have a new book. how to read the constitution and why. we have heard a lot of talk about bt constitutional crisis. are we there? sfwl we are for sure there. for the reasons i describe. we are allowing for decades too much power in the presidency.

and a congress that's not exercising its mandate and prerogative. to check the executive branch. on mbehalf of the voters. the tug constitution is the power in the people. the revolutionaries didn't fight and die to have a more powerful president. they fought and died for the opposite. and here we're talking about protecting someone that needs scrutiny. that's human nature. >> i have heard that many times. on this program. the president has -- not just trump. it's too powerful. and there needs to be more checks and balances. how to read the constitution and why. thank you so much. i appreciate it. the president picking a fight with yet another athlete who doesn't want to visit the white house. his feud with a u.s. woman's soccer star. every day, visionaries are creating the future.

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president trump is getting into war of words with u.s. women's soccer star meghan rapino. asked if she'll go to the white house. if they win the world cup. this is what she told soccer magazine. eight by eight. >> no. not going to the white house. we're not going to be invited. i doubt it. >> that set off the president. meghan should win first before she talks. finish the job. we haven't invited her or the team. i'm inviting the team win or lose. >> time to discuss. cnn sports analyst is here. here we go again. another dispute. between president trump and a prominent athlete. >> exactly.

the difference here is that this is with an athlete who is representing want country right now on foreign soil. in france. trying to win the world cup. the red, white and blue. wave the flag. this is unshl. this is not n if fl. this is the national team. it's the most popular. and has been doing that for 20 years. so it's a remarkable target he picked. >> one of her teammates. u.s. defender. tweeting her support. i know women who you cannot control or grope anger you. i standby -- and will sit this one out as well. i don't support the administration or the fight against lgbtq, immigrants or the most vulnerable. >> would this team even want to go to the white house?

>> no. probably not. this is the team that has come after two generations, decades ago. of the 1999 women's world cup team. brandy chastain, very much like that team. tla are looking out for much more than themselves frankly. and fighting of course for equal pay. they have this gender equity battle. and it's not about them. it's very much in keeping with what we're seeing politically. in our country. with so many women now in congress and in the senate. and girl power, whatever you want to call it. there's no doubt in my mind that they're going to have each other's back. and for them it's always been about much more than soccer. >> also, meghan is very out spoken about the gender. the equity gap and standing with colin kaepernick. that's a good lead this to the question. he went off the nba in the

tweets. saying other than the nba which refuses to call owners. please explain i got criminal justice reform passed. black unemployment is the lowest level in the country history and the poverty index is also best number ever. leagues and teams love coming to the white house. why is this about the -- regardless of the fact check. put that aside. why is this about the nba too? >> it's interesting. meghan is also openly gay. and she's obviously very vocal on those issues. she did neil kneel in defense of colin kaepernick. to your point, a woman who has been defending colin kaepernick talking about what she doesn't know what it's like to be african american. of course as a white woman. yet she cares about the issues and the president brings up african americans. i don't know if is he playing to the base. is that where he's going with this?

it is interesting. we're talking about meghan openly gay. and that tweet the nba and black athletes. it is stunning. why even bring that into a conversation about the soccer team? and bring the soccer team in to your twitter feed. when they're trying to represent the country. and the nation has fallen in love with this team. you're picking a fight with moms and dads and red states who love title 9. i can make a case there's parents in red states love title 9 more than blue states. it's really interesting why he's doing this. >> always a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you. >> ten years since michael jackson died. what is his comp collated legacy look like now? we'll talk about that. ♪

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to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. it maybe hard. it is hard to belief. michael jackson died ten years ago this week at age 50. king of pop remarkable career spanned nearly his entire life. what is his legacy today? his music was ground breaking mo doubt. many people are conflicted over the allegations that resurfaced in his documentary. that he sexually abused young boys. let's discuss now. i love having conversations with you guys. thank you so much for joining me. ten years after his death. a few months after the documentary leaving never land. i think it's a tough question. >> it's so tough. >> what's his legacy?

michael jackson. >> i was just saying to you i was afraid to come here today to have the conversation. his legacy can't be reduced to a block of time. we have to talk about his legacy over years. and years and years. what with e know today, is what has come out about him. these allegations are so incredibly toxic. and we are in a world -- you speak of ten years since the death of michael jackson, and i think anyone who has loved michael jackson know exactly where they were ten years ago, but we are in a world post-me too. we are in a world where movements have come to the fore that demand that we listen when people say they've been victimized. >> okay. all right. but let me play devil's advocate here. >> please. >> he was never convicted. >> granted. >> went to court and never convicted. all of this coming out after his death.

so he can't defend himself. in the eyes of the law -- >> he is also dead. i'm not judge and jury. >> you struggle with it. >> i struggle with it. i keep coming back to this line, you know, man or woman in the mirror. we've all got to come to this from where we are. for myself personally, my evolution, my heightened conscience in the ten years since the death of michael jackson is to look at him for more than just this tremendous figure who has contributed so much art to this world. >> trey, you know, kieran is not the only one who is conflicted. michael jackson fans are conflicted about this. they loved him as a child star. he became an adult pop icon. a lot of troubling issue. serious allegations against him. can we separate the man from the art? >> i mean, i think people can. i think it comes down to a personal choice, right? >> right. >> i echo a lot of kierna's sentiments. for me i think this is about the idea that you have to grapple with his whole story as a human being.

i think people who loved michael jackson and feel that his legacy is firmly imbedded in his music only and his performances, there are people who say that's enough about me. i don't need to hold anything else about him. i choose to hold both. i choose to hold his full story. for me i don't want to separate the man from the artist. there is obviously a difference between what michael jackson was as a public figure, but as a private man he did things that we have to keep tied together as his entire legacy. >> kierna, i just mentioned your piece here. you wrote a piece a few months ago called "he's out of my life: letting go of michael jackson." you were attacked by michael jackson fans. that's why you were nervous. the person who was once my family in my led began to feel like a stranger. over time, protecting my heart from a changing michael jackson happened by the sheer force of cognitive dissonance. for years i ignored the sideshow others were calling wacko jacko

as much as one humanly could. i separated that michael jackson from my michael and carried on. that michael from my michael and carried on. what llamas? what bizarre behavior? what debbie roe? what infatuation with little boys? >> yeah, and i think we're all guilty of this. i mean -- >> why do you think you were attacked, though? >> why was i attacked? >> why are you worried? >> well, you know, we don't discuss politics, we don't discuss religion and we now don't discuss michael jackson. he is officially now on the list of things that can really break the party up, right? people are vehement about how they feel because the love was so compelling. it was passionate. it was real. >> but you came to the realization that he wasn't what you wanted him to be. >> he wasn't what i wanted him to be because i personally cannot align myself with anyone who has this line of questioning facing them. dead or alive.

i don't want that to be my personal legacy. i understand that it's a conflict, and what i write in the piece, what you don't discuss is that i've had a life -- my life in many ways was shaped by michael jackson's career. i mapped out who i thought i was going to be based on the jacksons. i was going to be the tenth jackson. >> since i can remember, starting with the 45s. >> exactly. many people enter michael jackson's world from the "bad" album. >> trey, does race play a part in how people feel about michael jackson today. has it been easier to write off other black celebrities like r. kelly and bill cosby who have also had huge falls from grace? >> yeah, you know, i think that's a really, really, really tough question about michael jackson. as delicately as you can say things like this, i think one of the things that's unique about michael is here is a man whose entire life arc started optically and sonically in one particular place. >> yes.

>> he was doing motown black music, and over time, you know, i think many things about him seemed to transcend his traditional identity, and i think in many ways as we recognize michael jackson as being a black public figure, so many things about his life and his appearance changed in a way that distanced himself from a lot of the like the core community that founded him. i also think too when we talk about r. kelly and bill cosby, i think what's a little different about the relationship with them is, one, they present obviously a conventionally traditionally black in appearance and in the way they moved throughout the culture. i also think, two, it's been easier for people to, like, draw the -- find the bread crumbs between what felt like was their public-facing art and contributions and trace that back to either the contradictions or seeing them as clues as to who they actually were behind the scenes, too. we don't have the same time of crumbs for michael. >> yeah. i'm out of time here. but you have to remember, we talked this a little in the

break. when people say they're going to cancel. they're not going to play the music or take the tv show off. remember, other people's livelihoods are absolutely dependent -- >> absolutely. >> actors on the show. writers, producers. same thing on the all bums. they count on that money. you're not just cancelling the artist, you're cancelling the entire culture, ecosystem where people herb their living. i'm not condoning any of it, but think about that. thank you, both. i appreciate it. that's it for us. thanks for watching. d? yep. our miles card. earn unlimited 1.5 miles and we'll match it at the end of your first year. nice! i'm thinking about a scuba diving trip. woman: ooh! (gasp) or not. you okay? yeah, no, i'm good. earn miles. we'll match 'em at the end of your first year. omar, check this out. uh, yeah, i was calling to see if you do laser hair removal. for men. notice that my hips are off the ground. [ engine revving ] and then, i'm gonna pike my hips back into downward dog.

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